Posted on March 18, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Shame about Alex Chilton. One of the greats gone…
Via Tez Burke, here’s a five-CD set of ‘toytown music’, that style of English baroque pop which combined piccolo trumpets and lyrics about toy soldiers and childhood. Follow the rapidshare links but also have a look at their notes. This contains all the usual suspects (The Move, [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Apologies for the radio silence for the last few days (Tilt, I’ll try to get that track to you at some point…) but I’ve been suffering from exhaustion – not just tiredness, but proper unable-to-function-in-any-coherent-way, barely-able-to-stand,unable-to-focus-the-eyes exhaustion – for the last week. For that reason today’s post will just be linkblogging. I hope I’m coherent [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Don’t worry, this isn’t only the third new-to-me book I read this year – between the last of these posts and this one I also read five other books I’d not read before (as well as usual rereads, comics etc) but I’m planning on submitting some writing to the series that they are connected to [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
This is a ‘beta’/proof version – the authors have yet to give feedback (and there’s one article where I had to cut a handful of words and the author may change that before the final print version), but it’s finally done. Click the image to read it.
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Posted on January 6, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
(Still a day behind with posts, will catch up soon – lots happening in personal life)
Pillock wants to know how people would have dealt with rebooting Star Trek. (I’m almost certainly going to do this as part of Pop-Drama)
Jon Blum almost convinces me that the Welsh Series has something going for it, while Tim at [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
The closest I’ve come to a New Year’s Resolution this year (other than getting PEP! out not *too* late and trying to stay employed all year) is that I’m going to try to post *something* every single day. I’ve also decided to blog every single book I read (not reread or I’d post about nothing [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
Just a few quick links today…
Ubuntu has released its latest version today, Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”. Ubuntu isn’t my GNU/Linux distribution of choice, but it is far and away the best for people who’ve had little previous experience with GNU/Linux, so if you’ve been thinking of shelling out a few hundred quid for WIndows 7, [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
Just a few quick links today:
An app for (ptui!) iPhone that splits the universe for you.
Terence Eden suggests we should mutualise the post office.
Rick Veitch draws Harvey Pekar as Darkseid.
Peter Watts wonders what the drug companies are going to do about the apparent increased effectiveness of placebos.
Pillock saw Yoko Ono in a Corolla.
And Marc looks [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
I’ve got a few things I want to write about over the next couple of days – I want to do a Wednesday Comics review, a Spotify playlist and a Doctor Who post, just for a start – but for now here’s some links (one or more of the above will be posted tonight).
My friend [...]
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Posted on September 10, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
Apologies for yet again not getting a hyperpost up today – I’ve got to fix some stuff with my wife’s computer. I’m going to make it up by doing five posts in three days over the weekend. These posts are all planned so clearly in my head all I have to do is find the [...]
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